2. He turns 50 this year, so fancy fashion magazine V photoshopped him to look younger, on request.

3. You too can own Lindsey Lohan without spending one minute in prison! Phillips’ 2×2 painting will be a surreal portrait of Lohan at the exact moment she received her sentence in an L.A. courtroom. A must have.

4. The New York Times wrote this article about how much more awesome he is than you. It was published in the Fashion and Style section.

6. Celebrity, sex, fashion, and advertising are really about politics, economics, and morality.

7. His paintings are prominently featured in “Gossip Girl.”(WTF?) He did a cameo.

Another painting on Gossip Girl.

8. Phillips had to learn how to communicate with Lindsey Lohan by text. She can’t handle more than one third of a sentence or she won’t respond. She initiated their first contact like this:

“Hi.”

Phillips wrote back a long paragraph introducing himself and outlining his plans for their project together. Her response was silence. The mutual friend who had arranged the professional pairing urged her to give Phillips another chance. She tried again:

“Hi.”

This time, Phillips texted Lindsay in her own language:

“Hi.”

And they made beautiful music together, or at least, this bizarre video:

9. Lindsey Lohan was out on bail during the shooting of this great work of art.

13. He has painted an Interview cover of Rob Lowe, a portrait of Jeff Koons’s Michael Jackson sculpture, and a 10-year-old’s drawing of Tom Cruise. These, he says, are emblematic of the “notion of the real being represented in media.”

14. Phillips also made this pornless video of Sasha Gray:

15. In November, he did an editorial fashion shoot for Elle magazine starring China Chow and Phillips’s own Porsche.

17. While the Lindsey Lohan video was being shown at the DMA artist talk, I scribbled in my notes, “a commercial,” then a few seconds later, Phillips said, “It’s a commercial.” So we concur.

18. A White Cube show in London depicting the fleeting nature of celebrity – portraits of people who used to be famous, but aren’t anymore. (You know the White Cube gallery, owned by Jay Joplin, ex-husband of Sam Taylor-Wood, who divorced him to be with Kick-Ass, but before that made a lot of celebrity-based art starring Robert Downey Jr. and Marianne Faithfull. I should not gossip.)

19. Phillips had never made any type of film before working with Lindsey.

20. EMI plastered Phillips-designed posters all over London for the band Dirty Vegas. He calls it “the swan song of promotional advertising” by a record company.

Bonus – one more about Lindsey Lohan (because I can’t resist). From the NYT article:

“She’s interested in art,” Mr. Phillips said. “She paints, and I like her work a lot.”